trying to use HTML::Mason on apache2 but scripts come up as plaintext in the browser

I've been trying different routes in order to get HTML::Mason scripts to
work....but the scripts come up as plain text in the browser

I have mod_perl and HTML::Mason loaded and Apache httpd-2.2.3

here is my what is added in my httpd.conf


LoadModule perl_module /usr/local/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so

PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
<Location /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/mason>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</Location>